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+title = "A new beginning"
+date = 2019-10-31T21:05:00+11:00
+description = "Resurrecting an inactive blog by migrating from Octopress to Hugo, and embarking on a journey to build everything with Bazel."
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+This blog has been inactive for a long time. I tried to at least post an article
+yearly, and next thing you know, two years and a half fly by... Halloween seemed
+like a good time to resurrect it.
+
+I wanted to start writing again recently, and faced an issue: this blog was
+using Octopress 2. Well, Octopress has [apparently been dead for even longer
+than this blog](http://octopress.org/). So I wanted to switch to another static
+generator. I found [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/), which is actively maintained and
+ticked all the boxes I had, so that's what I settled for (sorry for the probable
+RSS feed mess - while I set up 301 redirects for the old articles, I guess this
+won't play nicely with any RSS reader. This is actually what prompted this
+article...)
+
+This could have been an hour worth of work - migrating the content (both Hugo
+and Octopress are using Markdown, so that part was really simple), finding or
+putting together a nice template, and call it a day. But how fun is that?
+Instead, I chose to go with the most complex (hence fun, right?) approach
+possible. And that was by using [Bazel](https://bazel.build/) to do
+_everything_. Sass linting and pre-processing, HTML generation, generating a
+Docker image, deploying it... and with tests for a lot of things along the way.
+Today, the deployment part is still missing (I'm working on it), but everything
+else is pretty much ready.
+
+I plan to describe this whole journey soon, although I don't know exactly which
+form it will take yet - probably a series of small articles covering a specific
+aspect. In the meantime, welcome back on a brand-new blog!